Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-04 Thread Tim Van Holder
(Sorry, failed to copy the list on this reply) On 12/5/06, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With M-x cd, entering "/t" TAB completes to "/top-dir/" like it should, but "/top-dir/s" TAB does NOT complete to "/top-dir/sub-dir/" even though there is only 1 matching directory

Re: bad copyright years

2006-12-04 Thread Glenn Morris
Richard Stallman wrote: > On this subject, was it ever decided whether "2001" (the year 21.1 was > released) should be added to all files that were present in Emacs at > that time? > > Yes, it should be. Marvellous. It is missing from a large number of files. I just fixed lisp/*.el, w

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Corrected message: It's a consequence of the recent change to `beginning-of-defun-raw'. Compare the threads "font-locking and open parens in column 0" and "emacs hangs in jit-lock". What sort of text causes this error in scan_lists? We want to do something to prevent C mode from alw

Re: bad copyright years

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
On this subject, was it ever decided whether "2001" (the year 21.1 was released) should be added to all files that were present in Emacs at that time? Yes, it should be. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://li

Re: big file warning if compressed

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
> That is because Emacs has no way of telling how big it is > until after uncompressing it. That's not really true: GNU zip has the --list option, which generates output like: compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 12574759 58689536 78.5% foo.txt 1. How long doe

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
> What about providing an option and keep the current recursive as > default? See the patch below (`gnus-sort-threads-loop' is your > function). I think this is a good approach. Why do we want to keep the recursive version? Why add an option? We know that the loop works, so let'

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Tim's report is about `M-x cd' (not `M-x dired'), Indeed, it is. Several of us mistook this for being about Dired. which already reads its argument using read-directory-name. No it doesn't; that was the point we were talking about.

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
With M-x cd, entering "/t" TAB completes to "/top-dir/" like it should, but "/top-dir/s" TAB does NOT complete to "/top-dir/sub-dir/" even though there is only 1 matching directory (TAB TAB shows only "sub-dir" as only alternative); it's necessary to disambiguate the directory name

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
It's a consequence of the recent change to `beginning-of-defun-raw'. Compare the threads "font-locking and open parens in column 0" and "emacs hangs in jit-lock". What sort of text causes this error in scan_lists? We want to do something to prevent C mode from always scanning from the

Re: large-file-warning-threshold and insert-file

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
> Those should not query. When you ask to revert a buffer, you are > unlikely to want to stick with the old version just because the new > one is large. I'm thinking of an example where I visited a log file shortly after starting some server. Then a few hours later I ask to r

Re: Builds ok; runs ok; install nit

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
You need to upgrade Makeinfo. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: bad copyright years

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Don't the copyright years need to be updated to include all years from 2001-2006 inclusive, the period over which they have been available from the Emacs CVS repository? Yes, they should be. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-

Re: Toggling buffer-local variables from Options menu on menu bar

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
Maybe we should add a few more menu bar items to toggle things for the current buffer, analogous to Truncate Long Lines in This Buffer. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: bad copyright years

2006-12-04 Thread Glenn Morris
On this subject, was it ever decided whether "2001" (the year 21.1 was released) should be added to all files that were present in Emacs at that time? When we went through this copyright update process the first time, sometimes it was added and sometimes it was not. Or is it not important?

warnings compiling Emacs 22 on amd64

2006-12-04 Thread Francesco Potorti`
I get these warnings during compilation on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu with Debian testing with gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19) I identified the reason for the first one and posted it on emacs-devel, where I am going to follow up the answer I got. I plan to consider the other

new version of emacs frontend to gpg (not a bug)

2006-12-04 Thread Dr. M. Luedde
hi folks, i'm including a new version of `egpg' (was `dired-gpg'), the emacs-dired frontend to gpg. feel free to have a look at it, send comments, or discard it, if you wish! best regards, mirko. ___ Telefonate ohne

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi everybody! On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, martin rudalics wrote: > I see this too a lot, even in plain C files. A backtrace when this > happen looks like this: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Containing expression ends > prematurely" 107612 107612) > scan-lists(107699 -1 0) > forwar

Re: Builds ok; runs ok; install nit

2006-12-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:09:26 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org > > > ./ack.texi:520: Unknown command `/orgensen'. > > This is a bug; I will fix it shortly. Done. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list em

Re: TRAMP password caching

2006-12-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Michael Albinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:09:39 +0100 > > Anyway, I'm not a regular w32 user, so I would appreciate all > recommendations. Thanks for the explanation. I will investigate and get

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Jan Djärv
martin rudalics skrev: >> I see this too a lot, even in plain C files. A backtrace when this >> happen looks like this: >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Containing expression ends >> prematurely" 107612 107612) >> scan-lists(107699 -1 0) >> forward-list(-1) >> backward-list(1

Re: Builds ok; runs ok; install nit

2006-12-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: "Marshall, Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:00:51 - > > My system has makeinfo version 4.2 This is too old; please upgrade. > (cd man; make info) > cd /rvcarma/marshals/software/emacs/man; makeinfo --force emacs.texi > ./display.texi:170: Unknown command `tie'.

Re: TRAMP password caching

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the issue here, and how does one see it in tramp.el? (I > didn't follow this thread, sorry.) When using 'scp' instead of 'ssh' for tramp transfers, you are prompted for your password when you connect, each time you visit a file, and each time y

Re: TRAMP password caching

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Albinus
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Eli, >> Under w32, it still might be desirable to go back to plink as default >> method. Here I would like to get a recommendation from w32 users. > > What is the issue here, and how does one see it in tramp.el? (I > didn't follow this thread, sorry.)

Re: TRAMP password caching

2006-12-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Michael Albinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:05:23 +0100 > Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Under w32, it still might be desirable to go back to plink as default > method. Here I would like to get a recommendation from w32 users. W

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd suggest the following patch on top of the previous. Which size > was sufficient for you? I used 2000 instead of 200. Can the array be made to grow as needed, rather than having a hard limit to the maximum thread depth? > Another workaround would b

Re: big file warning if compressed

2006-12-04 Thread Kevin Rodgers
Richard Stallman wrote: Normally upon trying to open a large file, we get a warning like "file is bigger than XX MB, proceed?". However, the same file, if compressed, won't cause the warning upon attempts to open/view it. That is because Emacs has no way of telling how big it is unti

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Chong Yidong
Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I searched the archives and I only found one more report about this > problem, so it seems to be a *very rare* situation. I'm not sure if > such a change should be made now (in the stable series). > > What about providing an option and keep the current r

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Reiner Steib
On Mon, Dec 04 2006, Chris Moore wrote: > OK, so the 'loop' version of the sort function does seem to work, but > fixing that has shown up a new problem. > [ gnus-make-thread-indent-array ] > The '200' and '201' in this function limit the thread depth. I'd suggest the following patch on top of th

Re: dired-after-readin-hook

2006-12-04 Thread kevin.gal
Yes; it fixes the problem. Kevin Gallagher FCS SOSCOE Configuration & Control The Boeing Company 281-226-6888 -Original Message- From: Richard Stallman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: Re:

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> One thing I noticed it that the new sort funcction changes the length >> of the list of threads: >> >> *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. >> ELISP> (length before-sorting) >> 106 >>

Re: large-file-warning-threshold and insert-file

2006-12-04 Thread Kevin Rodgers
Richard Stallman wrote: Should `M-x insert-file' also check the file size and ask for confirmation? That seems like a good idea. Note that insert-file-1 is called by both insert-file and insert-file-literally: 2006-12-01 Kevin Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * files.el (insert-

Re: M-x insert-file-literally not documented

2006-12-04 Thread Kevin Rodgers
Richard Stallman wrote: This change is a good idea, but it should use the active voice. This more closely matches the description of `M-x find-file-literally' i.e. "Visit a file with no conversion of the contents." *** files.texi.orig 2006-09-12 20:19:29 - --- files.texi 2006-12-04 10

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-04 Thread Kevin Rodgers
Kim F. Storm wrote: Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: My original report received no replies and it's been over 3 months, hence this ping. Originally reported for GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 of 2006-08-01. Still present in GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 of 2006-12-04. Given a directory structure of the

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing I noticed it that the new sort funcction changes the length > of the list of threads: > > *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. > ELISP> (length before-sorting) > 106 > ELISP> (length after-sorting) > 258 That seems t

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That change is needed, and not too big. > If it works, please install it. I don't think it does work quite right. I've tried opening the mailbox with the long thread and it still doesn't work. I get a different error now though: Debugger entered

backup-directory-alist not always honoured

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Very occasionally I see my backup files are created in the wrong place, but I've been unable to reproduce this behaviour. I have this setting: backup-directory-alist is a variable defined in `files.el'. Its value is (("." . "Backup")) The idea is that backup files are created in a subdirecto

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Reiner Steib
On Sun, Dec 03 2006, Chong Yidong wrote: > Chris Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I just tried opening a mail folder using nnimap in gnus. >> >> One of the threads in the folder is 834 messages long, and each >> message in the thread is a reply to the previous one which results in >> the thr

Re: gnus crashes on threads deeper than 333 articles

2006-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
That change is needed, and not too big. If it works, please install it. ___ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug

Re: Directory name completion blocks when it shouldn't

2006-12-04 Thread Kim F. Storm
Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My original report received no replies and it's been over 3 months, > hence this ping. > > Originally reported for GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 of 2006-08-01. > Still present in GNU Emacs 22.0.91.1 of 2006-12-04. > > Given a directory structure of the form: > >

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread martin rudalics
> I see this too a lot, even in plain C files. A backtrace when this > happen looks like this: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Containing expression ends > prematurely" 107612 107612) > scan-lists(107699 -1 0) > forward-list(-1) > backward-list(1) > beginning-of-defun-raw(n

Re: Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Jan Djärv
Tim Van Holder skrev: For a few weeks now, I've had intermittent issues editing C++ code in Emacs; I was hoping to find some minimal reproducible case, but have been unable to do so. The symptoms are that while editing a C++ source file (typically happens when killing or yanking, but I think I

Builds ok; runs ok; install nit

2006-12-04 Thread Marshall, Simon
CVS as of Dec 4 builds and runs ok on: In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.6 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) of 2006-12-04 on perth X server distributor `Hummingbird Ltd.', version 11.0.100015 configured using `configure 'CFLAGS=-g'' And In GNU Emacs 22.0.91.6 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, Motif Version 2.1.0) of

Mysterious fontification/C++ context issue

2006-12-04 Thread Tim Van Holder
For a few weeks now, I've had intermittent issues editing C++ code in Emacs; I was hoping to find some minimal reproducible case, but have been unable to do so. The symptoms are that while editing a C++ source file (typically happens when killing or yanking, but I think I've seen it happen with re

Re: large-file-warning-threshold and insert-file

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > recover-file > recover-session-finish recover-this-file revert-buffer > > Those should not query. When you ask to revert a buffer, you are > unlikely to want to stick with the old version just because the n

Re: Emacs hangs on long words in .html files

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Moore
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All in all I suggest the patch below, which does seem to remove the > O(N^2) behavior. That patch fixes the problem for me, works a lot faster than my nasty \\{,64\\} hack, and has the added benefit of not limiting the length of names which will be col